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A CENTURY'S RETROSPECTIVE

The H-Ideas Year 2000 Book Review Project

1900-1910
Leslie Stephen, The English Utilitarians. 3 vols. (1900)
Elie Halevy, The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism. 3 vols. (1901-1904)
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-05)
Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1908)

1911-1920
G. P. Gooch, History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (1913)
J. B. Bury, The Idea of Progess (1920)

1921-1930
Theodor Lessing, Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen, oder Die Geburt der Geschichte aus dem Mythos (1921)
Sir James George Frazier, The Golden Bough (1922)
Marc Bloch, Les rois thaumaturges: etude sur le caractere surnaturel a la puissance royale (1923)
Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1924)
John Herman Randall, Jr., _The Making of the Modern Mind_ (1926)
H. R. Patch, The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature (1927)
Vernon Parrington, Main Currents of American Thought. 3 vols. (1927)
Egon Friedell, Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit. 2 vols. (1927/1928)
Karl Mannheim, Ideologie und Utopie (1929)

1931-1940
Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932)
Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1932)
Werner Jaeger, Paedeia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (1933)
Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony (1933)
Basil Willey, The Seventeenth Century Background (1934)
Paul Hazard, La Crise de la Conscience Europeenne, 1680-1715 (1935)
Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)
Friedrich Meinecke, Die entstehung des historismus (1936)
Qian Mu, Zhongguo jin sanbai nian xueshushi. 2 vols. (1937)
Perry Miller, The New England Mind. 2 vols. (1939)
Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process (1939)
Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939)
Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx (1939)
Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station (1940)

1941-1950
Karl Lowith, From Hegel to Nietzsche (1941)
Jacques Barzun, Darwin, Marx, and Freud: Critique of a Heritage (1941)
Lucien Febvre, Le Probleme de l'incroyance au XVIe siecle: la religion de Rabelais (1942)
Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought (1943)
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis (1946)
F. S. C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry into Human Understanding (1946)
Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948)
George Boas, Essays on Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages (1948)
Arthur O. Lovejoy, Essays in the History of Ideas (1948)
Morton White, Social Thought in America: The Revolt Against Formalism (1949)
Marjorie Hope Nicholson, The Breaking of the Circle (1950)

1951-1960
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950)
Henry Osborn Taylor, The Mediaeval Mind. 2 vols. (1951)
Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Tetsuro Watsuji, History of Ethical Thought in Japan. 2 vols. (1952)
Roy Harvey Pearce, The Savages of America (1953)
A. Rupert Hall, The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1800: The Formation of Modern Scientific Attitude (1954)
Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China (1954)
Hans Baron, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in the Age of Classicism and Tyranny (1955)
Reinhard Koselleck, Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society (1956)
Alexandre Koyre, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957)
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution_ (1957)
Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millenium: Revolutionary Messianism in Medieval and Reformation Europe and its Bearing on Modern Totalitarian Movements (1957)
Bernhard Karlgren, Grammata Serica Recensa (1957)
Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies (1957)
Walter Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind (1957)
H. Stuart Hughes, Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought, 1890-1930 (1958)
Walter J. Ong, S.J., Ramus: Method and the Decay of Dialogue (1958)
Joseph Levenson, Confucian China and its Modern Fate. 3 vols. (1958-1965)


1961-1970
John Herman Randall, The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science (1961)
Martin Malia, Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism (1961)
Wilhelm E. Muehlmann, ed., Chiliasmus und Nativismus: Studien zur Psychologie, Soziologie und historischen Kasuistik der Umsturzbewegungen (1961)
Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 (1962)
Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1962)
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; rev. 1970)
Galvano Della Volpe, Critica del Gusto (1963)
Maruyama Masao, Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics (1963)
Heiko Oberman, The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism (1963)
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum (1963-1997)
Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World (1964)
Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964)
Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (1964)
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences (1966)
Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. 2 vols. (1966, 1969)
Clarence J. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore (1967)
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (1967)
Caroline Robbins, The Eighteen Century Commonwealth Men (1968)
Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black (1968)
David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1968)
Harry Levin, The Myth of the Golden Age in the Renaissance (1969)
Michel Foucault, L'Archeologie du savoir (1969)

1971-1980
Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)
M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (1971)
Ricardo Quinones, The Renaissance Discovery of Time (1972)
Nikki Keddie, Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'al-Afghani': A Political Biography (1972)
George Economou, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature (1972)
Ernst Topitsch, Gottwerdung und Revolution: Beitrage zur Weltanschauungsanalyse und Ideologiekritik (1973)
Hayden White, Metahistory (1973)
Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century (1975) J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975)
Keith Michael Baker, Condorcet (1975)
Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660 (1975)
Henry May, The Enlightenment in America (1976)
Donald Worster, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1977)
Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers (1978)
Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)
Georges Duby, Les trois ordres: ou, l'imaginaire du feodalisme (1978)
Raymond Williams, Keywords (1979)
Li Zehou, Zhongguo jindai sixiangshi lun (1979)
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979)
Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980)
James Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (1980)

1981-1990
T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Anti-Modernism and the Transformation of American Culture (1981)
Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (1983)
Anthony Grafton , Joseph Scaliger (1983)
Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Idea of Poverty in the Nineteenth Century: England in the Early Industrial Age (1983)
Dominick LaCapra, Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, and Language (1983)
Julien Freund, La decadence: histoire sociologique et philsophique d'une categorie de l'experience humaine (1984)
Steve Shapin and Simon Shaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (1985)
James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory (1986)
Lorraine Daston, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (1988)
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream (1988)
Charles Henry Lohr, Latin Aristotle Commentaries.-II: Renaissance Authors (1988)
Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (1988)
A. C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China (1989)
Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender and Science in New England (1989)
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (1989)
Donna Jeanne Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989)

1991-2000
Dorothy Ross, The Origin of American Social Science (1991)
Max Oelschlaeger, The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology (1991)
Stefan Collini, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930 (1991)
Robert B. Westbrook, John Dewey (1991)
Roger Shattuck, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996)
J. J. Clarke, Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter between Asian and Western Thought (1997)
Lionel M. Jensen, Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (1997)
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)